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SHilton
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May 12, 2008
Question

Text Entry Box Showing All Caps

  • May 12, 2008
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Is there a way to show all capital letters when a user enters text whether they enter all lowercase, all uppercase, or mixed case?

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    Anonymous
    April 28, 2010

    Hi all,

    A bit of a bump, this one, but I'm trying to sort out the same problem in Captivate 4.  I've got a variable holding the user's name and I want to make it all uppercase.

    I'm getting close to a solution using the Javascript .toUpperCase() function, but it's not working - here's the code I'm using:

    userName = userName.toUpperCase();

    That's in the slide exit action, as an 'execute JavaScript' action, but it's not working.

    Anyone have any ideas?

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    aaronWU
    Participant
    January 5, 2011

    Has anyone figured out how to do this? I just used an uppercase type of font, but I would like to use Arial, where a user could type in anything without pressing caps lock and it would display as all upper case.

    Any suggests/answers?

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 6, 2011

    You could possibly do it with a custom widget.

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    Anonymous
    July 17, 2008
    I've got a swf file that you can place on a the slide which includes the text entry. Just testing it at the moment...
    Greig at Lands
    Greig at Lands
    Inspiring
    May 28, 2009

    ...and how did the testing go?

    I am trying to simulate a database into which all entry goes as uppercase, regardless of keyboard settings. Wildcards can also be entered. What I am trying to do is allow users to enter whatever part of the entry they want with appropriate wildcards. If correct the next slide should show their entry. This is done using a variable. The only difference I want to make is to have the variable show their entry in uppercase in the next slide. Any ideas anyone?

    Thanks,

    Greig

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    jojolina
    Inspiring
    May 12, 2008
    Hi SueCJ

    In answer to your question, Yes and No.
    Yes - when the user has finished input and you have not set the text box to case sensitive, you can have the box move to the next screen, where you would have your screenshot showing all uppercase in that field.
    No - Captivate has no functionality to change user input for you, it merely measures user input to the acceptable list you give in the text box properties.

    Hope your question is answered

    Andrew
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